Available. Host from National Journal is yes come in the house is going home already. No, this isnt some kind of record. Mccarthyan kevin announced that the Lower Chamber would be going home not for a week as originally planned but for almost two months so that members could go home and campaign for election day. All those to look at Vacation Days and assume that this is the least Productive Congress ever. By some measures it is a difficult point to argue with. House democrats were quick to jump on the bandwagon, presenting the early adjournment date as another sign of a donothing congress and pinning the blame on Republican Leadership. In truth, the house has been in so far this117 days year, more days and then the chamber work in most recent Election Years. The real record setter, the 109th congress, which worked 96 days before the election under speaker Dennis Hastert. Even the 111th congress led by nancy pelosi herself work for just 109 days before the 2010 election. Newspaper this morning, Senate Majority reid periodeduled a busywork between election day and christmas that could end up being the democrats final weeks in the majority. Reid hopes to partially redeem the 113 congress, on track to be the least Productive Congress in recent history. Says the senate will take up the marketplace fairness act that would allow states to collect taxes from online , and on them is still funding government for fiscal bill fundingus government for fiscal 2015, the Defense Department authorization, and a resolution authorizing military action against the islamic state. The use of force resolution may be wrapped into the Defense Authorization bill. Reid will also try to move as many of president obamas nominees as possible. That is the majority leaders current agenda for the lameduck session. This morning in the Washington Times is this article on boehne banner speaker you saw him speaking at the American Enterprise institute. R. House Speaker John Boehner promised tax reform and even hinted at action on immigration if the gop wins control of both chambers in the november elections. In a speech setting out his ideas for getting the economy humming again, mr. Boehner signaled his staying power as the top leader in washington, having weathered several nearrevolts from his own troops. Political analysts say that not only has he survived, but you could be stronger than ever. i think he is unchalle ngable,former speaker Newt Gingrich told the Washington Times. oehner isaid mr. B benefiting from the fact that the republicans that came into office as part of the 2010 Tea Party Wave are growing up. they now understand that boehner knows what the hell he is doing. Shutting the government down was a dumb strategy. this is from the hill. Cconnell make me majority leader, ill give you keystone xl. Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell sees voters with what the Gopcontrolled Senate would do. if the American People give us an opportunity to be in the majority next year, i will be setting the agenda. It is easier to score if you are on offense and the majority leader is offensive coordinator. If we have a new majority next year and a new majority leader, the Keystone Pipeline will be voted on on the floor of the senate, something the current majority has an opening for literally years. are first up this morning on our democrat line from milwaukee. Caller good morning, peter. Lets see if we can make eader,ell a no time later period. The congress has done nothing at all. The only objective is to do harm to the president , harm to our country, and they have done a pretty good job of that at this particular time. Insofar as them actually working in all the 304 bills they said they would put through, 95 of with the to do away Affordable Care act. Said he was going to make him a one term president. Well, that didnt work. Whatever happens in the future, people be ready, because the republicans are going to take us all the way back. Thank you. Eric, independent line from cedar town, georgia, you are on washington journal. What do you think about Congress Wrapping up . Caller i think congress is really worthless. We are paying them money and they are not doing anything to help us. The only thing this congress can do together on is more money, republicans and democrats is war money, republicans and democrats. This guy was imprisoned by the United States and they let him go and they say he actually threatened them this guy, who he was, he was fighting alongside americans. Anbar al qaeda in iraq, muslimsg, these sunni were the ones who wanted this fight. They were being paid money by john mccain, billions of dollars, giving out money like candy. When they left, the United States pulled out. Maliki withdrew the money. Host all right, eric, we got your narrative there. Why dont you put a bow on that . Caller democrats or republicans. What these guys are doing, they are not on duty. They are talking about boots on the ground. Up how manyu bring Syrian Rebels there are no moderate Syrian Rebels. Host you know what, were going to leave it there, eric. Thanks for calling in, this morning. Dy on twitter agrees with the original point you made. Host from the hill this draws contrastn with clinton on syria. Stand that could distinguish her from Hillary Clinton in 2016, she voted against legislation to fund the government until december 11 which included a provision giving obama title x authority to equip syrian militants in the hopes that they will fight finally sunni a violent sunni extremists. Has a thinner Foreign Policy resume, but by voting against the Authority Obama requested, she will earn points with members of the Democratic Base who are skeptical of another military campaign in the middle east. Here is a list also from the hill newspaper, the nine democrats who voted no on syria. Tammy baldwin, mark begich of alaska, who is up for reelection, Kiersten Gillibrand kirsten children also voted y,ainst the syrian aid, leah Bernie Sanders voted against it as well. There were 12 republicans you can see the list there. Two of the notables include rand paul of kentucky and pat roberts, who is up for reelection as well in kansas. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I would like to talk about the Keystone Pipeline. Host yes, sir. Caller im saddened by the way americans are looking at the Keystone Pipeline as if it is not operational and functional. We currently have a pipeline illinois andng to to the gulf coast and they are building another phase that is already being commission that is going to the houston, texas area. The only thing we seem to we arerstand is that thinking that the phase four, which is in the nebraska Supreme Court, currently, which there are parties that said that the governor of nebraska didnt have the right to authorize that because i think under the utility commission, and in addition to that it is in the Supreme Court of nebraska host so what is your view on the Keystone Pipeline . Caller i think it should be nebraska the state of should rule on how they would like to route the pipeline. Liken, republicans would to give the states the rights and they want individuals to have their rights. However, why do they not allow this project to go through . That is all i have to say. Host jerry, is it an issue that would affect your vote . Affect no, it wouldnt my vote, because i cannot understand the situation. Im just going to let the justices to rule and then i am going to vote the correct way as a voter. Host all right, thank you, sir. Randy, fort worth, texas, republican line. Caller yes, i believe the donothing policy that everybody claims, it works for me, because the more the obama agenda gets passed, the worst the country gets. You listen to the democrat callers calling in this one, none of them seem happy. They had two years of obama controlling the house and the senate, and that was a total disaster. You got 93 Million People out of agenda the democrats agenda is to pass this immigration bill. How is that going to help america . That is what i want to ask the democrat callers there. With 93igration bill, Million People out of work in america, how is this going to help the country . Host randy in fort worth. Host if you want to talk about congress, politics, issues, weve got a hold grab bag of stuff you can talk about this morning. John boehner spoke at the American Enterprise institute if theis agenda republicans take both houses of congress. [video clip] you have heard a lot lately about corporate inversions. Are really just symptoms, visible symptoms of a much deeper problem. Our tax code, nobody understands it, not even the irs. People pay accountants thousands of dollars and hundreds of dollars to lower their tax bills. Thousands of changes have been made to this tax code. Mostly for the benefit of those who are well connected. All this talk about inversions is making the problem smaller. Code,fix the whole corporate site and personal side could make it programs, make it profamily, bring down the rates for every american to clear out the loopholes that allow people to do taxes on 2 sheets of paper. 95 of the American People can do their taxes on two sheets of paper. I know i can feel the Blood Pressure going down in the room already. We get one of the biggest reasons that jobs are moving overseas, and we make it easier for families to do everything from bildad us to save for their College Costs for their kids. Build a house to save for their College Costs for their kids. Host this tweet host from the september 8 gallup poll, Congress Approval rating since a 14 two months before the election. Next call is from greg in jacksonville, florida, independent line. Peter, it is nice to talk to you, it has been a while i called into the show. We are on opposite Political Science but we maintain this ability that cspan likes to see the stability that seized ecstasy. The civility that cspan likes to see. I want to let viewers know how close to the listening port cspan is when it talks conflicts of interest, and this is right on the mark when congress is wrapping up before the election. I am an independent who thinks that it is reprehensible that the American People has allowed through to take us an additional 35, 40 days off, when they just got back from a three week vacation during the holidays. Andcrats, independents, republicans should band together and say enough is enough of this congress and move towards the problems of america. You have a situation where we are talking about declaring war, if you will, with isis. We have unemployment in america. We have huge problems. In these people go home. And these people go home. I just dont understand how the American People would tolerate that. Something should be done about recalling all of them come even the ones who are saying that it is shameful and still didnt have the tenacity to stand up and say this is wrong. We should do something about this. Again, the program is right on message with todays topic. I hope that the media would begin to do the same thing that cspan is doing this morning and talk about again what congress is not doing, and they decide to go home, because of an election. Host greg in jacksonville, thanks for calling in. Mary is in fort washington, maryland, right here in the suburbs. Democrats line. Caller the previous coloring bank review scholar just still every bit of thunder i wanted to spew out, but yes, i totally agree with him, and when Congress Comes back, they should come back to a locked and bolted capitol building. When they come back, they need to be facing us in front of the building. That means democrats, republicans, an independents. This has been the story of congress i cant say i have ever seen, because im 621 but the story of congress ever. We people have to step out of our comfort zone and do something and the only thing we do is vote or protest. Voting is not getting us anywhere right now because they dont care. We are having a pending war, broken nfl, and they are just like the nfl right now. And they want to go on vacation. I am so furious right now that if i had the nerve, which im really gathering, i would go to therelpito and stand that, because it is ridiculous. We should never let the congress be like it is. Have a great weekend. And someone who agrees with your points. Host Huffington Post politics congressess ashamed of for tending to elections before war authorization debate. Itselfss is ashamed of tending to elections before the war authorization vote but they will do it anyway. Obama maintains he does not need a new authorization to expand u. S. Military strikes against the terrorist group. Indeed, the u. S. Has carried out 160 airstrikes in iraq this summer. Plans to and finds to expand into syria. Some lawmakers disagree that the president has the authority under the 2001 authorization for use of military force to carry out an openended campaign against militants in the islamic state. But with elections around the corner, many lawmakers arent inclined to wait unti wade into a phony debate about war authorization that could jeopardize their races. Debate is being sidelined for two months as political campaigns take up, not that members of congress seem collectively surprised by their priorities. i find it an act of cowardice but not astonishing, siad senator john mccain. is it embarrassing . Jackieaid representative speier. Nancy pelosi and her team held a press conference yesterday after congress announced it was going to adjourn. Here is the minority leader. [video clip] afternoon. And thats what it is, a good afternoon, but not a good afternoon for congress to adjourn for this congress, for this session of congress. We were supposed to be in tomorrow, and then another week, and now we have been informed by the Republican Leadership that anything we were ever going to do is over until we come back for a lameduck session. Especially disconcerting to me because today, september 18, marks the sixth year since the chairman of the fed told us our leadership, the Republican Leadership, house and senate in , after givingd us a description of the meltdown of the Financial Institutions from retary paul chairmanson secretary paulson, chairman bernanke told me that if we did not act immediately, we would not have an economy by monday. That statement, that reality still scars the confidence of the American People, the great middle class. Host Blue Horseshoe tweets in host next all from a republican in houston. Where are you from originally . Texan. I am a host please go ahead. Caller one of the things i the whatis doing is it, ukraine situation russia sent its troops to the far east, basically around syria, and instead of diplomats doing real politics and talking of the rebels that were supposed to be good rebels, they are just assad, an attack isis in syria. That is not a good thing to happen. I dont know what these guys are thinking. Havead they just want to potential world war iii. It is crazy. Another thing, on the irs, the irs has been [indiscernible] that is the first thing, and people forgot that. They have been doing what theyve been doing. They need to begin they need to be gotten rid of, period host leave it right there, sir. Thank you for calling in. The white today, house refused to include weapons in a package announced or ukraine despite an impassioned plea from ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko for more military assistance. The Obama Administration is providing 46 million in nonlethal Security Assistance and 7 million for humanitarian aid in eastern ukraine, where Government Forces and russianbacked separatist have fought. Indiana on our independent line. Caller good morning. I really appreciate the fact that you are on the air and i get to watch all your programs. My main concern is that we are supposed to be a nation of laws, and it doesnt appear that we are. What i have seen over the last , asyears here, basically they are arguing with each other too much and they are not working with each other. , the president is bypassing the constitution by bypassing congress. And the senate has not put forward a budget for five or six years, and that is really terrible because that is basically what is in the constitution. I dont see anybody getting mad about that. We have run up a big National Debt. 17 trillion, its ridiculous. I was pretty upset when we were around 06 and mad